Tag Archives: Etymology

Ostracize: How Greek Pottery Gave Us a Word Highly Relevant to the Times

For my blog this week, I thought about writing on how Covid-19 exposes faults in the American economic system and what policies must be implemented in the future to strengthen our society against future crises. Since the virus is pervading every aspect of my news feed, however, I decided against this subject for the time …

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Mesmerism: the Man, the Word, the Pseudoscience

To be mesmerized is to be fascinated, obsessed, and so attentive to something that you appear to be under a spell. Of the words in the English language, “mesmerized” has a relatively recent origin. In fact, it was produced s a result of a fascinating (mesmerizing?) type of pseudoscience that was popular in the 18th …

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